Kanban Maturity Model

Kanban Maturity Model: Evolving Fit-for-Purpose Organizations

By David J Anderson and Teodora Bozheva

The Kanban method is known for its six practices which enable companies to increase their agility in an evolutionary manner, without making drastic changes to organizational structures, and thus engaging and involving people in the transition initiative.

The Kanban Maturity Model (KMM) is to help organizations to define a roadmap and concrete action steps that enable developing their agility.

Explains the intent and implementation details of 132 specific practices, derived from 10+ years of Kanban implementations in firms small to extremely large all over the world.

Provides a complete set of example kanban boards that respond to the variety of needs related to visualizing work items, workflows of different types and complexity, risks, classes of services, shared resources, and so forth.

Defines in detail what practices and metrics to use for effective workflow management.